[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ']['en:
Ok, need some more advice plz..

I have approached with clear minds, slept on it, and usually I get somewhere, but thats not the case currently. I mean because this involves water damage all this may be in vain and im just expecting miracles, but I rarely give up, so am sticking at it, (and cos I ant got the money to buy a new phone lol)

Okay so I started with Ubuntu, expecting to get everything I need running Live from a memory stick, not too much to ask, after all I only wanted the cid to my mmc! well according to tht tutorial I had to install the Android devkit, ok, but gosh the adb has moved!! got to install another addon from android package installer, but that needs Java runtime installing, ok, installed tht, finally ran devkit to install adb tools, tutorial says restart, oh too late I forgot I was running a live ubuntu, and thinking that I wouldnt need to have some read/write savespace, when copying live img to mem card I didnt bother creating one! so I had to remember to do all tht again, bearing in mind tht Linux shell and GUI was alien to me, I havent played with Linux for years! so takes longer to suss certain things out. Anyway many attempts to get the cid all ended with some sort of hurdle that ran me into a brickwall! so decided to give up and sleep on it.

Anyway after a good nights sleep, I had a brainstorm try using the Android live x86 image I played with a few months ago, Im sure I see a shell tool, yes i did! so after setting all that up, i typed the cat command POW! I got a cid, so i thought thats too good to be true, but I attempted to make gold card out of that cid, didnt work. thought that the cid maybe was emulated or something, so I bite the bullet and find a friend with an android phone and visit them to fetch my cid, ok, after installing their ****ty xperia drivers I manage to get my cid, but it looks awfully similar to the one I easily fetched through android x86, but I attempt to make a goldcard img antyway.. FAIL...

ok so im pretty sure I can fetch a valid cid from Android x86, but now Im more confused about the goldcard whether its working or not. ive looked over a few making goldcard tutorials, and Im not sure whether im making gold card correct.

I have tried exactly making number backwards, aswell as replacing first two digits to 00 before running through PSAS, Im pretty sure im using hex editor right, just pasting goldcard info into same address on card.

I think the goldcards not working because I have run the ruu WWE posted earlier and its saying unknown error get correct image.. now it could also be because the phones damaged, but I just dont know how I can tell the goldcard is working.

when I put my goldcard in, and hboot (PWR & Vol -), it goes to menu for 2 secs and restarts, if I start quickboot (BACK & PWR) it stays in menu. Is this correct behaviour?

I have also tried PB99IMG.zip with the extracted img from the ruu im trying to install..

any experienced feedback appreciated, plz dont send me a shortcut to another goldcard tut lol, unless you know it works, I just need to know if im making the goldcard right, and if I have a working goldcard that it should be able to install the RUU above, thx.